How To: Ford CMP "Blitz" miscellany

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jacques Reed

I may have answered my own question. Revisiting my various publications and studying the diagrams I noticed what could be the speedometer cable passing over the engine. See attached.

Your manual diagram indeed shows the speedometer cable.

Originally Posted by Jacques Reed

I will still be interested to see how your cable is routed Hanno.

Well Jacques, I finally took to time to crawl under my 1943 F15A. I can't vouch for the routing to be the orginal one, but this is how it has been routed for the past decades and it works.

Behind the speedometer:

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Coming through the engine cowling it dives straight down past the engine in between the 2nd and 3rd cylinder.

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And then dives past the cylinder head into the chassis:

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